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    Napalm and Silly Putty
    Napalm and Silly Putty
    Napalm and Silly Putty
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Napalm and Silly Putty

    Written by George Carlin

    Narrated by George Carlin

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    About this audiobook

    He's the inventor of Past-Tense TV (featuring quot;Got Smart,quot; quot;Father Knew Best,quot; and quot;It Was Left to Beaverquot;); the tireless crusader for such charities as the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, Children of Parents with Bad Teeth, and the State Hospital for Those Who Felt All Right About a Year Ago; founder of the George Carlin Book Club (top titles: quot;How to Act Laid-Back During a Grease Fire,quot; quot;Fill Your Life with Croutons,quot; and quot;The Meaning of Cornquot;); and the only social commentator with the guts to point out that quot;the day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.quot;Yes, George Carlin is back with more of what he does better than any other comic today: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness. (quot;If the shoe fits, get another just like it.quot; quot;When you sneeze, all the numbers in your head go up by one.quot;) Napalm Silly Putty is just what his fans have been waiting for-another generous helping of notions, nonsense, assertions, assumptions, mockery, merriment, silliness, sarcasm, and, to be sure, plenty of disturbing references and toxic alienation. George wouldn't have it any other way.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 1, 2001
    ISBN9781598872965
    Napalm and Silly Putty
    Author

    George Carlin

    Born in New York City in 1937, George Dennis Patrick Carlin was one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time.  He appeared on The Tonight Show more than 130 times, starred in an unprecedented thirteen HBO Specials, hosted the first Saturday Night Live, and penned three New York Times bestselling books. Of the twenty-three solo albums recorded by Mr. Carlin, eleven were Grammy nominated and he took home the coveted statue five times, including a 2001 Grammy win for Best Spoken Comedy Album for his reading of his bestseller Brain Droppings. In 2002, Carlin was awarded the Freedom of Speech Award by the First Amendment Center in cooperation with the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and he was the named eleventh recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in June of 2008. George Carlin passed away at age seventy-one on June 22, 2008 in Santa Monica, California.

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    • 4/5
      I had this sitting on my shelf for quite a while and never picked it up. While I was sorting through my books recently I decided it was time to read it. As usual Mr. Carlin's sense of humour is amazing. He has some profound thoughts on many subjects and expresses them with typical George Carlin sense of humour. His death was definitely a loss to contemporary comedy.
    • 4/5
      The cover promises "quips, probes, thrusts, screeds, japes, taunts, insults, musings, harangues, verbal ordeals, joy, anger, wonder, confusion, wisdom, hostility, innocence, impudence, reflection, and semantic distortion." That about sums it up. If you've heard Carlin's stage material, you don't need this book, because that's all that's in it.
    • 4/5
      Witty bits from different George Carlin comedy routines and random thoughts. The book could have been organized better and as of now follows no theme. It's great for people who know Carlin but may be not so much for others.
    • 4/5
      Witty bits from different George Carlin comedy routines and random thoughts. The book could have been organized better and as of now follows no theme. It's great for people who know Carlin but may be not so much for others.
    • 3/5
      Entertaining one-liners amd anecdotes from one of the premier comedians of recent times.
    • 4/5
      I found this book side splitting. It's the first book I've read by George Carlin. It's really a collection of observations, one liners and basically anything that pisses him off or baffles him. This is not a politically correct book either. But that makes it all the more funnier.
    • 4/5
      So, tell me, what did you expect from a book in which George Carlin just riffs? You were expecting, maybe, Dostoyevsky? You thought there would be a calm, tranquil, cognizant discussion of life as we live it? You imagined a hint of civility and sanity?Wrong.This is Carlin being Carlin. That means often it is hilarious, often it is brash, and often it is a bit too much. So, that meant that I laughed often (even out loud). But it also meant that, often, I knew what he was trying to do, but it just wasn’t hitting. And a little too often there were times I heard my inner critic saying “Next!” There will be people who read this that will be insulted, affronted, disgusted, not real happy. So, understand your tolerance before diving in. Understand that you will be assaulted. Understand that George Carlin will always be George Carlin (never accepting a role of doing the Hippy Dippy Weatherman over and over.)If you can’t take it, don’t try it.But, for those of us who know what we are getting into, and enjoy that same thing, then this is an entertaining (if occasionally uneven), voyage. That’s what happens when you throw George Carlin against the wall to see what sticks.
    • 3/5
      The exact same as "Brain Droppings" - his stand up routine as an audio book. This has one big advantage to listening to his live show, no one else laughing, just me, when I think it's funny. No laughter drowning out the first part of the next joke, either. It's fun to listen to & made my commute so much nicer.There was some over lap in material from "Brain Droppings", but not much. Mostly there were similar forms; top ten lists, what really bothers him & poking fun at sayings, people & things. It's worth getting out of the library, but I don't think I'll want to listen to it again for a decade or so.
    • 4/5
      George Carlin, only written. This comedian is a prolific jokester who writes down everything, catalogs it, and establishes just when to say something in his act. He is very thought-out in his routines, and it shows in his books. Funny, though little original from his stand-up routines. Of course, full of profanities, obnoxious jokes, wondering about language, and generally continuing on in the vein of "7 things you can't say on television."
    • 5/5
      Pretty much just what you'd expect out of Carlin. Hilarious, rude, irreverent, occasionally obscene. Some parts make you think, others just make you laugh. A very entertaining read.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book, but i realized that it was just a George Carlin Show in paper format. I enjoy his comedy but due to that reason i can't give it high marks. I did notice some new content but still.